Aug. 12—We saw a few young trees yesterday which had been brought from the Philippine Islands, they were growing in pols and as we admired them, we wondered if the first of tone of the species to be introduced into California was about the same size and if the people who introduced it anticipated that it would become one of their most important timber in due course. We believe they could not have anticipated that the species would replace hickory and ak for furniture making,—floor boarding and other purposes. They probably did expect that in years to come it would not bbe necessary to import the all which is distilled from the foliage of the tree. If they did anticipate this, the tree has done all that was asked from it.' for we believe that at. the present ime, almost all eucalyptus all used in America produced from trees growing there. The Blue Gum Euealypius globulus is native to Australia and apart from its other uses, it hay acquired reputation as an antidote to malaria and it has been planted extensively' In swampy. re-ions for this reason. Many altemp's have been made to acclimatize the tree in the vicinity Shanghai, but. to the best of our knowledge, all have failed. There should be a way, how-fever, and we hope to succeed one day. We are {old that in areas planted with eucalyptus the humidity is less than in areas not planted: that in itself Is sulicient incentive to try again, {or few of us ike our native brand of humidity, and how nice it would be to say for change, "It's not the humidity, i's the heat." Our experiments with the Blue Gum have extended over many years and we found thet the tree grew so rapidly in the summer that the wood ould not ripen and it was easy prey for Jack Frost. The scarlet species is more hardy: we kept a few of these trees alive out of doors for four years; but we were unable to collect seed. Among the lot we saw yesterday, we Roticed a few of the lemon-scented, citriodora. The glandular hairs on this. species give delightful fragrance not unlike the lemon-scented verbena. In passing, we may mention another of the species which produces wood used for underground work in many countries fas well as many of the telegraph poley we Used to try fo climb, It is also used for street paving, and perhaps Nanking Road was paved with £, marginate, or Jarrah—w.t.e, Aug. 14—We were admiring a clump of cat-yesterday, it was growing next to a mass of sedum and the two appeared to be fighting for, what little space there was left on the Fockery. The pale blue flowers of the catmint were attractive in mass, but tue p.ant forms such a fine "carpet" that it es worth growing for that reason. Botanically, it is known Nepeta mussini and it is a close relative of che ground ivy. Writing of this plant reminds of other mints we cultivate in our gardens. There is the horse mint or Monarda, sometimes called bee balm from the fact that' bees from all" over the neighbourhood visit the flowers the evenings. This mint_is a border plant dom grown nowadays. Then we have the rious species of Mentha. Mentha spleata is Known to all of us as common or garden mint. We believe it is grown quite close to the bar ata local club especially for those who prefer "mint julep" to other beverages. We wed {0 ike mint with mutton until we found that it was used to camouflage goat Mesh, We have seen some wonderful magicians at various time Dut we never saw one so adept at turning a goat Into a sheep as some local people are:
course food mint sauce helps the huston considerably, especially after one has enjoyed a few "mint jules." Another well-known Species is A. piperite or peppermint; this is tone of the most important oil-producing plants ud it is native to Great Britain, It is generally grown on marshy land and successive crops fare obtained by ploughing in the rooly after harvest. The tops are ut in Summer when flowers have developed and treated similarly to hay. Oil is extracted by distillation with steam. There ly another species of mint culivated in northern Japan for oil, this plant produces oil of an inferior quality to that ob-{ained from the species referred to proviousl; Dut it contains more menthol. Mentha spleata In this case, the oil is. chiefly 1 purposes and for flavouring sarmint is the common name was the sergeant-major's funeral, "He was a true gentleman," said the padre, snd will ever be Temembered with affection his men for his unseish devotion to their "Crikey! murmured one of them to his chum, come to the wrong ministration policy of intervening in European and Far Eastern affairs. Now the Pre sident had renounced any intention of doing, so and had washed his hands of any responsibility for what might occur there.
Tt would; be dificult to reconcile the non-recognition doctrine with this new policy. It would be equally difficult to reconcile the Open Door policy committing the United States to supporting equality of commercial opportunity in the Far East; or the obligation contained in the Nine Power Treaty of supporting the territorial integrity of China.
The regular State Department officials could make nothing of' the President's se fond-hand comments. They suggested op! mis tically that they were not at variance with the previous policies of the Administration, while Secretary Hull, at his July 8 press conference, pointed out that only official statements could be taken as representing the foreign policy of the country and that the most recent official statement was that which he himself had presented to the press in reply to the German note on the Monroe Doctrine.
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